Word: coolerator
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lied about his age and spent two weeks in uniform before his mother took him home. Noting all this, Harry Sahl began pondering a military career for Mort-a secure field one or two light-years from show business-and initiated what might have been one of the cooler footnotes to military history when he got a Congressman to agree to give Mort an appointment to the U.S. Military Academy. Mort Sahl at West Point seems roughly twice as hard to imagine as Dwight D. Eisenhower (West Point, '15) rapping out bi-nightly monologues in a cave on Sunset...
...railway ticket offices to buy seats for the few train coaches that were air-conditioned. City employees demonstrated angrily for khuskhus curtains-spongy grass screens that cool the air when sprayed with water -for their office windows; municipal officials had to place a guard at the new water cooler to keep away outsiders, who flocked in to fill their jugs...
...with Mantle for seven years, roomed with him for two, and held a front-office job from 1957 to 1960. "Mickey finds the booing terribly hard to take. He becomes defiant and throws bats and flips his helmet and bangs his fist into brick walls and kicks the water cooler. If Mickey strikes out twice, I think he gets so sore at himself and the fans who are on him he almost says, 'All right, I'll show you. I'll strike out a third time.' And the worse things go, the more the fans...
Altaian's hoped that the out-at-the-elbows look might fit in the trend toward cooler, lighter, more comfortable men's wear. It was a long reach. But like manufacturers and retailers all over the U.S., Altman's was taking no chances on passing up whatever the big-spending U.S. consumer might want. Anticipating his whims and angling for his taste were new trends running all the way from cars to corsets...
...Writer I.A.L. Diamond, who made that uproarious travesty of transvestitism, and it features the same deft comedian. Jack Lemmon. There the similarities end. The earlier film was a Mack Sennett farce with boys for bathing beauties. Apartment is a comedy of men's-room humours and water-cooler politics that now and then among the belly laughs says something serious and sad about the struggle for success, about what it often does to a man, and about the horribly small world of big business...